The Vadinar refinery increased its capacity to 20 million tpy or 405,000 bpd, up from 10.5 million tpy and 200,000 bpd previously. The expansion allows Vadinar to process a much greater proportion of lower cost, heavy and ultra-heavy crude oils. Vadinar is the second largest, single-location refinery in India.

The Vadinar refinery increased its capacity to
20 million tpy or 405,000 bpd, up from 10.5 million tpy and
200,000 bpd previously.

The expansion and enhancements allow
Vadinar to process a much greater proportion of lower cost,
heavy and ultra-heavy crude oils.

Vadinar is the second largest, single-location refinery in
India and has increased from 6.1 to
11.8 on Nelsons complexity factor, including it among the
most complex refineries in the world.

The entire unit - constructed by Essar Projects (India) - was completed on
an EPC basis and took 30 months to commissioning.

The DCU - one of the largest in the world - enables the
Vadinar refinery to process challenging and
heavy crude slates by converting the residual oil from the
vacuum unit to higher value distillate products, such as
gasoline, diesel and heavy gas oil.

The solid petroleum coke by-product may also be used in the
cement industry or power generation.

Essar Projects (India) completed this mega project on EPC basis in 30 months is really to be considered milestone in the field of modern engineering.!!!!!!The state of the art technology in the field of refining heavy crude in to various useful hydrocarbon products such as gasoline, diesel etc and heavy solid petroleum coke by-products which will fulfill demands of today`s time !!!!!